From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16826 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Bug in math accents Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:14:46 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <4180D4A6.8070305@wxs.nl> References: <16720.22133.473936.610814@danton-imw.uni-bielefeld.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098962113 4965 80.91.229.6 (28 Oct 2004 11:15:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Oct 28 13:15:00 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CN8FA-00057q-00 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:15:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E8A12795; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:14:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08654-05; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:14:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C2D1277C; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:14:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B321D1277C for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:14:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08466-08 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:14:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41571276D for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:14:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9SBEiWM013705; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:14:44 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id D13A718A21; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:14:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C23E18A10; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:14:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Leif Albers , mailing list for ConTeXt users , Taco Hoekwater In-Reply-To: <16720.22133.473936.610814@danton-imw.uni-bielefeld.de> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/540/Tue Oct 19 14:59:23 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16826 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16826 Leif Albers wrote: > Two years ago I already posted about following bug. I am > amazed it still occurs in the present (beta) version of > ConTeXt. > > When I use math accents (like \tilde) on top of italic > characters in subscripts, they appear displaced. > > A trivial example is > > -------------------- SNIPP -------------------- > \starttext > $ E_{\tilde s} $ > \stoptext > -------------------- SNIPP -------------------- > > Compare the output to the plain TeX output of > "$ E_{\tilde s} $ \end", and you will see the > difference - watch the position of the accent. hm, it depends on the definition of \tilde; i must look into that \starttext $ E_{\tilde s} $ $ E_{\def\tilde{\mathaccent"707E }\tilde s} $ {\~s} \stoptext Maybe some italic correction is needed here; or a tilde from an italic font : question for Taco, btw, in contex, \tilde in this case expands to \mathaccent "0\purefamilyhex {mr}7E which is the plain definition, so i wonder what goes wrong there. > I really like the design of ConTeXt. But as long as this bug > occurs, ConTeXt is useless to me. > > Dear developers: *please* send me a reply of some > sort. Writing bug reports is time consuming and should at > least be rewarded with a single line response. Even a > "RTFM - you idiot" is better than no reaction at all. (this mail ended up at the wrong date in my mailbox, so i only see it now) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------